QRTSA seizes cars, equipment linked to Scott Driscoll from Redcliffe storage units | The Courier-Mail

QRTSA seizes cars, equipment linked to Scott Driscoll from Redcliffe storage units | The Courier-Mail:

QRTSA seizes cars, equipment linked to Scott Driscoll from Redcliffe storage units
MARK SOLOMONS AND KELMENY FRASER THE COURIER-MAIL JUNE 14, 2013 12:00AM
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A Land Rover Discovery was seized on Thursday along with many other items. Source: News Limited
SCOTT Driscoll's retail lobby group has repossessed the remaining assets of the organisation, including a Land Rover Discovery similar to the one the outcast MP appears to have been using the last time he attended a Parliamentary session.

The $36,000 car, a large photocopier and two storage units full of documents and other material were handed over yesterday by Mr Driscoll's wife Emma.

But a Honda CRV also said to belong to the Queensland Retail Traders and Shopkeepers Association remains missing.

The retailers who wrested back control of the QRTSA last month wrote this week to Mrs Driscoll's lawyer warning that unless the Honda was produced immediately, it would be reported stolen.

The Courier-Mail revealed in March that the QRTSA had transferred ownership of the Land Rover to Mr Driscoll's wife at a meeting the previous month, along with QRTSA mobile phones and fuel cards, to be offset against amounts said to be owing to her company, Norsefire.

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The paper also found evidence the Honda had been transferred to Norsefire, then to Mr Driscoll's electorate officer worker and political associate Ben Scott, and then back again last year.

But last month the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission called in police to investigate after finding that all QRTSA meetings said to have been held since April 2011 were "fiction", that the minutes had been retrospectively "concocted" by Mrs Driscoll and that all the body's expenditure since April 2011 had been unauthorised.

John Hockings, the interim head of the QRTSA, said he and his committee would now put the material in secure storage and carefully go through it, although a preliminary search had found no documents relating to the organisation's finances.

"Two of the three filing cabinets were empty," he said.

Mr Driscoll was driving an identical Land Rover when he appeared in a Channel 10 TV news item in March, although it was carrying personalised registration plates.

The Courier-Mail can also reveal the Australian Tax Office has hit the QRTSA with a $36,700 bill for unpaid GST.

Documents show it relates to the $605,000 sale of the body's headquarters and $110,000 paid by the IGA supermarket network for the QRTSA to represent it over trading hours cases.

Mr Driscoll is under joint investigation by police and the Crime and Misconduct Commission over allegations of fraud and misconduct.

It follows a series of revelations in The Courier-Mail that he secretly controlled the QRTSA and a taxpayer-funded Redcliffe community association while an MP, in both cases funnelling tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees to Norsefire.

The Federal Government last month commissioned a forensic audit of the community association.